548 
FOREST AND STREAM 
[April 3, 1909. 
Dates of two registered tournaments have been 
changed as follows: Sportsmen’s Association of the 
Northwest, Walla Walla, from May 18-20 to May 19-21. 
Idaho-Utah Sportsmen’s Association, Ogden, Utah, from 
May 5-7 to Aug. 11-13. 
At the live-bird shoot of the Penrose Gun Club, Phil¬ 
adelphia, March 27, three, Messrs. Forsythe, Felix and 
Young, tied on 10 straight in the main event, fourteen 
entries. The former two tied on S in a miss-and-out. 
A G50-pound hog is the tid-bit for competition on Thurs¬ 
day of this week. 
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The series of shoots held by the Mountain View Gun 
Club, of Albany, N. Y., for the Albany cup, was fin¬ 
ished on Saturday of last week. Hurd won the last leg 
with 49 out of 50, which gave him two wins to his credit, 
but Sanders and I’alentine had three wins each, and in 
the shoot-off, Sanders won, 45 to Valentine’s 42. 
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The team contest! between the Mahhasset Bay Yacht 
Club, of Port Washington, L. I., and the Yale Gun 
Club, on the grounds of the former, five men on a side, 
was won by Manhasset, 194 to 193. The win was thus 
on the narrow margin of one target, as close as was 
possible and at the same time determine a winner. The 
club’s last week’s shoot closed its winter season. 
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The generous registrations of tournaments for the 
coming season, in evidence so early in the year, indicate 
that 1909 will be one of exceeding activity in tournament 
matters, a testimonial in general to the soundness and 
popularity of the sport in itself, and in particular to the 
efficacy of the, vast amount of literature sent out by the 
Secretary-Manager, Elmer E. Shaner, who in an ex¬ 
pressive phrase’ of slang, is on to his job all right. 
The close of the trapshooting season of the Keystone 
Yacht Club was punctuated with a pleasing event for its 
members, namely, the defeat of the S. S. White ten- 
man team by a score of 202 to 198, at Tacony, Pa., on 
Saturday last. Each man shot at 25 targets. For the 
Keystones, Messrs. Swartz and Betson tied on 23 for 
high individual scores, while seven of the White team, 
Messrs. Severn, Beyer, Fontain, Cantrell, Mercer, 
Greener and W. Wolstencroft, broke 22 for high. 
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Mr. Thomas A. Marshall (Chief Long Talk), of the 
U. M. C. Co., was a distinguished visitor in New York 
last week, whence he departed, on Thursday evening, for 
the tournament given, by Clay Brothers, Austerlitz, Ky. 
One would never suspect, from his modest deportment 
that he was twice winner of the Grand American Handi¬ 
cap, captain of the All-American team (which invaded 
England, with the result that the Bank of England had 
to raise its discounts to secure a new supply of gold). 
Chief of the Indians, Mayor of Keithsburg and a good 
American citizen. 
With the closing week of March, the trapshooting 
season of most of the athletic, yacht and country clubs, 
closes, while their regular spring and' summer season of 
other sports begins. It is now in annual regular order 
to devise ways and means as to how the contestants 
at the regular tournaments shall win if they lose, and 
shall shoot without any expense' to themselves in any 
event. The delicate problem of so adjusting the com¬ 
petition that if one fellow loses some other fellow makes 
good the loss, is not an easy one. It is still more dif¬ 
ficult to devise ways and means for say, ten GO per cent, 
shooters to defeat one 90 per cent, shooter, without 
hurting any one’s feelings, and at the same time keep 
/ them all busy igniting. 
The great team contest between the New York Athletic 
Club and the Crescent Athletic Club, on the grounds of 
the latter, March 27, had more magnitude than any trap¬ 
shooting team contest held in the vicinity of New York 
in many years. There were twenty-two contestants on 
each team. The scoring did not rank high; but when 
the unfavorable weather conditions, a strong wind blow¬ 
ing in the shooters’ faces, is considered, a general low¬ 
ering of averages was to be expected. Mr. A. R. Allan, 
of the Crescents, was high individual performer, scoring 
a total of 92. Of the New York Athletic Club members, 
Messrs. C. W. Billings and Dr. De Wolfei tied on 84 
for high. The totals of the two teams were: Crescents, 
1657; New \ ork Athletic Club, 1605,’ out of a possible 
2200. Thus the home club led by 52 targets. The 
second contest of the home-and-home series will take 
place at Travers Island, on April 17. 
Bernard Waters. 
Bronx Shooting Association. 
The Buskies is another name for a-few of the faithful 
who attended the second outing of 1909 for a whack at 
the white fliers (with feathers on). Capt. James Hender¬ 
son expected a few more, but it was rather damp and 
“blowsome” on the day selected for some of the boys 
who were expected to be with us. High winds prevailed. 
Even the manager, ilr. Levins, thought the barometer’s 
mercury had fallen too fast to take a chance of traveling 
the approximately one hundred miles to take care of his 
beloved Buskies. Messrs. Henderson, Brennan and 
Schorty had come up the evening before, when all was 
serene, but it must have taken no little enthusiasm for 
the balance of those present to decide to start. 
One gentleman present, John Erb, had not shot at a 
pigeon for about twelve years, as he stated, but his 
presence reminded one of the days when Uncle Billy 
Sigler, .\1. Heritage, Sam Castle, Eddy Collins, Green 
Hollis, Charley HedWen. Hugh Leddy, Aaron Woodruff, 
Tom Keller, Allen Willey, Lem. Thomas, Uncle Jacob 
Pentz, Heber Breitnall, .4sa Whitehead, Fred Quimby, 
Neaf Apgar, Jack Brewer, Uncle Billy Hughes, Billy 
Flohart, and many others who loved the double barrel, 
made Johnny Erb’s their mecca to participate in Jersey 
sweeps. John did not recover his eye until the last 10, 
and will do better next time. Capt, Dreyer performed 
beautifully, some of his seconds being fine stops. ‘He 
got 32 out of his first 35, anid lost but 8 out of 60 shot 
at, an average of .866, in fact, the best average he has 
ever made. Billy Brennan had trained for this com¬ 
petition, but had trained in dry weather, and to-day’s 
rain squalls caused his score to average just 80 per cent. 
His ninth bird in the last 10-bird sweep had six dots 
arounid the scoring thereof, which meant that William 
negotiated its quietus with a very long, clever second. 
Mr. Kroeger had not been at’ the traps' in some time. 
He dropped 9 out of his 45 and averaged .800, while 
Brennan and Jim Henderson with .866 were well to the 
fore, and Koegel and Schortemeier with 48 out of 55, 
were high with .873 each. 
The birds were a fair lot and started well, considering 
the wet and squally day. 
Howard Schlicher’s pointer bitch Hazel retrieved fault¬ 
lessly as usual. 
Mr. Tomforde shot a Gib. 12ga.. which was a bit light 
for the shells he was using, so he quit after making a 
fair score under the conditions. He seldom shoots at 
the traps, but is a good field shot. 
First event, preliminary. 15 birds: 
J A Henderson. 30. 
W J Brennan, 30 . 
L H Schortemeier, 30. 
John Kroeger, 30 . 
H W Dreyer, 28 . 
H C Koegel, .30 . 
W Tomforde, 28 . 
John Erb, 30 . 
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Henderson, 30 . 
Brennan, 30 . 
Schortemeier. 30 . 
Kroeger, 30 . 
Dreyer, 28 . 
Koegel, 30 . 
Tomforde, 28 . 
Erb, 30 . 
Third event, 10 birds: 
Henderson. 30 . 
Brennan, 30 . 
Schortemeier, 30 . 
Kroeger, 30 . 
Dreyer, 28 . 
Koegel, 30 . 
Erb, 30 . 
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Brennan . 
Schortemeier . 
Kroeger . 
Dreyer . 
Koegel . 
Erb . 
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Schortemeier . 
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Brennan . 12121—5 Manhatta. 
Boston and Vicinity. 
Mr. Fred Le Noir, formerly of Springfield, Mass., now 
of Columbus. O., was a visitor to the Wellington 
grounds last Saturday. He gracefully led the field with 
89 out of 100 targets. Eastern friends of the Le Noir 
family will be glad to know that Mrs. Le Noir’s health 
is very much improved. 
The scheduled shoot at Newport, R. I., May 30, will 
draw the cracks from this vicinity. The Aquidneck Gun 
Club will surely furnish a good tournament with Bert 
Powel at the helm 
The National Sportsman vs. Kirkwood Bros.’ team 
shoot is slated for Saturday, April 3, and the good shots 
have all been approached in approved style. 
W. G. Titcomb and Mrs. Titcomb, of Providence, vis¬ 
ited the Paleface grounds on Wednesday via auto. Much 
to everybody’s regret, Mr. Titcomb was using crutches 
and could not handle a gun. 
The Monomoy Branting Club have opened the season, 
and the several parties are taking their weekly turn at 
the famous stand. 
R. N. Burnes and Fred Daggett spent five or six days 
at Nantucket in quest of web-footed beauties, and had 
fair success. 
The “Candy Kid” is unanimously rechristened the 
“Candy Kidder,” all because he insists that square shot 
is preferable on hard targets. If you don’t believe there 
are square shot he will demonstrate to your satisfaction 
by showing the goods. 
There were a dozen happy high guns at a recent shoot 
when Fred Whitney put up twelve pocket knives as 
Apollinaris souvenirs. 
O. R. Dickey is off to Muskeget, armed with a 20- 
bore for duck and brant shooting. This popular pro¬ 
fessional is just good enough a shot to show off the small 
bore’s able handling of 12-bore loads. 
Messrs. C. W. Jordan, E. E. Thurston and Dr. Bray, 
of the Portland, Me., Gun Club, were Hub visitors last 
week, and naturally took a peep at the up-to-date Pale¬ 
face outfit. They enjoye'd the outing so much that they 
fully intend to plan future Boston visits invariably on a 
Wednesday. 
B. M. Higginson and C. L. Hauthaway, two expert 
Harvard gunners, are having daily cracks at the ducks 
and then a Dutch hustle to exams by 9 a. m. Mr. Hig¬ 
ginson secured a particularly handsome sheldrake last 
week, and is having it mounteid for his Cambridge quar¬ 
ters. 
George Hassam made a near win from the 19yd. mark 
when he scored 86 out of 100, including a bad slump in 
the fourth 20, that let 7 targets through his pattern; 
87 was high that day. 
B. A. A. and Harvard met in a friendly team match 
last Saturday and the former club had the best of the 
argument by 11 targets. C. C. Clapp was high gun for 
the B. A. A. with a score of 45 out of 50, an'd Morse, 
Hauthaway and Gilman divided honors for Harvard with 
scores of 40. 
Cut-glass dishes were awarded the eligible high guns 
at Wellington, March 27, and this meant Burnes and 
Clarke who tied on 87, and Hassam who broke 84. Sliding 
'distance handicap governed the event. 
Veteran Tom Howe was given a royal welcome after 
his long absence from the traps, and it seemed like old 
times to watch him handling the pump gun. He hasn’t 
quite got the hang of the new 32in. yet, but in the 
extra sweep after the programme he tied for first money 
on 22. 
I. R. Thomas figured in both events at the New Eng¬ 
land Kennel Club’s Saturday shoot on the Braintree 
grounds. Fle won the club cup contest and tied for the 
season cup, losing the latter on the shoot-off with W. O. 
Gay. 
F. Daniels was the one best long range shooter at 
the Walnut Hill range last Saturday, securing 46 and 44 
with a new( barrel. H. E. Tuck was high in the off¬ 
hand practice match with 89 and 86, while D, G. Fox 
put up five splendid scores in the pistol medal match— 
i. e., 95, 93. 91. 89 and 88. 
Holland Gun Club. 
Batavia, N. Y., Mlarch 25.—The weather to-day was a 
regular bhzzard. It blew and is snew, but in^spite of it 
four 10-straights and eight 9s were turned in on the 
regular trophy programme' 10-bird events, and in some 
25-target special events there were one 23, two 22s, two 
21s and a 20. 
“39” won Class A point and C. Robson won Class B 
point. 
Trophy points to date: 
Class A—“39,” Gardiner, Tomlinson and Walls, 3 points 
each; Watson 2; Keyes, 1. 
Class B—Brumber 4 points; Cheeseman and C. Robson, 
3 each; Farwell 2. , 
We close our winter season April 1, and there will be 
some ties to shoot off to decide the trophies. Scores 
follow: 
Walls . 
Gardiner . 
Tomlinson 
Febiger ... 
Shot at. 
Broke 
Shot at. Broke 
.100 
81 
C Robson 
. 75 43 
.100 
78 
“39” . 
. 50 45 
.100 
75 
Brumber . 
. 50 33 
.100 
75 
Forsyth ... 
. 50 40 
. 75 
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Wells . 
Wells’ score, being a beginner, and considering the 
weather, was all right. 
We have installed a trap and will make a trial at the 
new game of rifle ball shooting. 
Chas. W. Gardiner, Pres. 
Pleasure Gun Club. 
Elwood, N. j., March 27.—Following are scores made 
on Saturday, at our grounds. The wind’ played 
with the targets in the early afternoon, but soon died 
out and made better shooting. F. H. Lewis was high 
for the afternoon. Events 5, 6 and 7 were the first strings 
on the spring trophy shoot. Events 6 and 7 for the Capt. 
Lydecker trophy and 5 and 6 for the club trophy. De 
Mott and Earl had their first try to-day: 
Events: 
Targets: 
W J Sorter... 
Keeler . 
Knight . 
De Mott . 
Maxwell . 
Lydecker . 
F Westervelt 
C J Westervelt, 
M Miloy . 
Dr Moeller .. 
F H Lewis- 
A B Gaines, Jr 
Earl . 
1 2 
3 
4 5 
6 
7 8 9 10 11 12 
10 15 
15 10 25 
20 
20 15 25 20 10 15 
8 12 
14 
6 23 
19 
15 .. 17 15 
. . . . 
7 3 
6 
4 14 
9 
8 10 15 .. 
10 .. 
8 12 
10 
9 18 
16 
15 12 .. .. 
.. 12 
3 4 
4 
2 9 
6 
8. 
3 6 
7 
4 17 
11 
12. 
7 11 
9 21 
18 
13 .. 23 .. 
9 10 
io 
.. 21 
18 
17. 
3 11 
.. 21 
12 
9. 
2 9 
.. 14 
12 
9. 
.. 11 
9 
8 17 
10 
16 10 18 .. 
.. 11 
15 
8 23 
18 
11 14 23 18 
7 
8 21 
15 
15 8 .. .. 
io .. 
3 
2 6 
4 
4. 
C. J. W. 
